This is my first post on here and I would like to ask you all the question do I get the D800 or the D800E

Im a equestrian photographer and alot of my work is out side and I am doing more and more adverisitng work for equestrian brands in and out of studios.

I am really set on the D800 however after seeing the images posted on here in teh D800E post and looking at the 100% crops it does have that slight edge over the D800.

As you can imagen for my advertising work I would need the highest quality possible (remeber alot of the adveritisng images are shot outside at comps) however I am a little worried about the D800E with its anit thing filter taken out and risk of having to do alot of post production work before sending images off.

Go with the E and be happy! I had tried both for sometime, and the 800 went back, the E stayed. Moire is not an issue. It's not just the details or resolution. The E version is void of the cloudiness that I've seen in almost every 35mm format DSLR. I can easily use 100% crop of an image without further processing.

I have the d800. Not saying there is no difference, but from all my testing from images online and reading digilloyd's in-depth comparisons, I have to say I cannot tell the difference between a properly sharpened d800 and d800e.

I say get which ever one you can get your hands on first. They are the same camera and imo unless your printing @ max all the time, your better off working on your PP than worrying about a tiny bit of sharpness.

solo wrote:
Go with the E and be happy! I had tried both for sometime, and the 800 went back, the E stayed. Moire is not an issue. It's not just the details or resolution. The E version is void of the cloudiness that I've seen in almost every 35mm format DSLR. I can easily use 100% crop of an image without further processing.

My experience as well, especially cropping . . . . . . but

Hardcore wrote:
I have to say I cannot tell the difference between a properly sharpened d800 and d800e.

This is true as well. It's hard to tell one from the other. My E doesn't have any AF issues though, the 800 did.